Word: slapshot
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Curbing the Huskie energy, the icewomen held a tight lease on Northeastern until the third period. Goaltender Katie Williams played her fourth ice hockey game ever with the finesse of an experienced player. Registering 35 saves for the game, Williams repelled slapshot after slapshot and made it look easy...
...outstanding first game. "I was a little nervous at first," she said after the game, "but after that there were a lot of shots--so I had no time to be nervous." Right wing Vicki may have helped calm Williams' nerves as she capitalized on a missed Terrier slapshot, flying down the ice and scooting the puck into the net early in the second period...
Veteran winger Wayne Cashman, aching back and all, had put Boston up 3-2 at 16:30 of period two when he tipped home Brad Park's slapshot from the point for what turned out to be the winning tally, but the prospect of a seventh game seemed anything but certain until "Stan the Man"--"he's a scrapper," said Mike Milbury--Jonathan introduced samurai hockey to the sell-out crowd...
Dominating play as period two came to a close (in fact, a Terrier slapshot hit both posts just before the buzzer), B.U. appeared to have regained total control, their time-worn strategy of overcoming deficits with calm, positional play an ostensible success...
...moment, frozen, University of New Hampshire captain Bob Gould, having just uncorked a vicious slapshot from about 45 feet, glances towards the goal before heading in for a prospective rebound. The backskating Dartmouth defenseman, unaware of what is happening behind him. His glove outstretched, hoping for the reassuring thwack of rubber into leather, Dartmouth goalie Bob Gaudet. 14,490 fans, waiting, ready to explode. The Boston Garden scoreboard: UNH 2, Dartmouth 2, 2:43 to play...